Hi All,
The long awaited 1.28 patch for EAW will be released later this evening (after final upload to the download sites).

It will be available from two separate download sites and in two forms. There will be a single 49Meg download for those with high speed modems (Broadband, ASDL etc). Also, a split version for those with slower modem connections (DialUp etc). The latter will have the single patch file split into smaller parts, which can be reformed after download to recreate the single patch file.

The download sites will give an overview of what is contained in the patch.

I'll post the release later this evening and put up a thread for comments/questions regards the patch (hopefully not too many install/running problems??).


Many thanks to the members of the EAW SEAWC Coders group for their time and efforts to produce this 'lift for the old girl'

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I'm almost afraid to install it! I just got EAW working with an old Win98 system (Intel P4 2.6GHz) that I "updated" with an ATI 9200 and Turtle Beach Riviera. Any anticipated problems here? Congratulations and thanks for your efforts!

Hi rm,

no problems to expect!! Just make a copy of your current EAW installation, call the folder EAW1.28(or what ever) then run the patch. In this way you wont lose the EAW1.2 installation and you will have the 1.28 installation aside of it.

Greetings,

Knegel

P.S.: A big PEW for having this released(at least).

Yahoo, now the code group can fly online with me during my time (7 AM to 2 PM central time USA).

Been away from the old girl for quite a while now (more than a year). Gave up on it ever since I got a new comouter and NVidia card that resulted in the horrible 7217 problems.

Does this patch address this problem? Has it been resolved?

It's great to see all the work still being done on such a fun sim.

Pips:

The 7217 error has not yet been fully addressed because the complexity of the problem increased even further with the newer nVidia cards.

I have a PC with a 8400 GS card which cannot use the older drivers.



I have only minor problems running EAW in Vista.
The minor problems are the garbled map screen and no horizon fog. The fog problem is fixed by running the glide wrapper. AFAIK there is no Vista equivalent of the "no_adjusted_pitch" registry fix for XP, so I have to endure the garbled selection map screen.
However, if I put my XP HDD caddy in I get the 7217 error.

With XP I do not get the 7217 error if I use any of the older 7217 fixed versions of the eaw.exe, but screen tearing makes the selections impossible:



This did not happen previously, so is a new problem for us to solve, it is being worked on, but as we do not know how long it will take it made no point to delay the release any further.

What puzzles me is why Vista/DX10 somehow circumvents the 7217 error on my graphics card.

There are a number of "workarounds", the most obvious being to switch to an ATI card.

Jel

Sure is a bummer. Especially so when sim's as old as EAW don't exhibit the same problem eg RB3D, CFS 2 and MiG Alley.

YEP!

What a geat enjoyment to get this new version

Will try to fly it as soon as possible and give the link to my brother

A very very big thanks to Knegel and all the team !

Cheers, Olivier

Hi

Thanks a lot for the new patch!
I can only imagine how much work and time you guys have put into it



Cheers